Rappler’s ‘Intenseful’ Rapping

How could they go so low?

I mean this media company that prides itself on not being mainstream media but also not a blogging site.

Yet, upon closer analysis of the narratives which have come out of its website, one can’t help but wonder whether this trend-setting pretender has indeed outed itself to be simply a trolling center that sometimes posts legitimate news.

Maria Ressa, its founder, obviously wanted to emulate Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post. Unfortunately, she invested not in veteran writers, but in fresh graduates not even of journalism, but people mainly from that otherwise excellent elite school in Katipunan. Rappler hoped that youthful exuberance and badass attitude could compensate for experience that should have started with initiation in the police beat where real journalists are tried and tested.

The result was disastrously alarming.

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